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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Yesterday was Cameron's birthday and we decided to take a day trip together as a family. We packed a picnic lunch and headed west.

For lunch, we stopped in Killarney. They have a beach there with picnic tables and play structures for the kids. After we finished eating, the kids played for a bit.

Jonah and Sage are so adorable and affectionate. I had to get a picture of these two pretending to be "love birds".

After some play time, we loaded back up the van and drove to the International Peace Garden, located on the border between Canada and the U.S. We drove around the Canadian side and then onto the American side, where we stopped at the North American Game Warden Museum. Thankfully, Jonah is no longer afraid of "stuffed" animals, so the kids enjoyed exploring the museum.

We drove back around to the garden and got out to walk the length of it, starting on the Canadian side. It's not a bad walk (2.4 km there and back) and the weather was great!

A nice man took a family picture of us by one of the fountains:

And I took some nice photos, too:

At the end, there's the Peace Chapel, which you can see a bit behind the border marker Sage and Jonah are standing on.

And the photos I took along the U.S. side as we walked back:

These were from the Twin Towers from 9/11 at the memorial there. I can't believe that that happened almost 10 years ago!

In the conservatory, they have all these different kinds of cacti there. I took a photo for a family there and they offered to return the favour.

Jonah took this one of Sage & me:

Another family photo taken by a kind stranger:

After leaving the Peace Garden, we drove north to Boissevain, where we took a photo of Tommy the Turtle...

Visited their model train museum...

And stopped at a yard sale, where I picked up this treasure for $8.

We drove back home after Boissevain, with a quick stop in Killarney to pick up burgers from The Beach Hut.

Oh, and before I forget, here's my project for today.... it's another card that I made using this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Colouring with White Ink.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (kraft, stamper's select white and new leaf), In Bloom and Half & Half stamp sets and Half and Half dies. I coloured in the flower bloom with PTI Fresh Snow and the leaves with my friend, Susan's, copic markers.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

One of my new online friends, Louise Spiden, posted this idea on her blog: a challenge to herself to post 10 cards in 10 days on her blog. I'm "borrowing" her idea and tweaking it slightly to include scrapbooking layouts.

Here's my first one, that I created for the July inspiration challenge at My Scrap Shoppe, using this photo as inspiration:

Today, in Cincinnati, Papertrey Ink is hosting a day of stamping/card making called Stamp-a-faire. Since I couldn't attend in person, I decided to invite my friends, Susan and Mandy over to have our own little Stamp-a-faire Morden. ;)

PTI was great about having some challenges for us to play along. I have been making so many cards lately that I'm a little behind in layouts (I know, I know, there's suppose to be no pressure to be "caught up" in scrapbooking), but still, I decided to make some layouts for some of the challenges.

Here's my layout for Challenge #1: Create a project featuring patterned strips that are created with some of your favorite decorative elements.

For this challenge, I decided to scrapbook my photos from the Casting Crowns concert I attended at the end of June. I chose my new PTI Tranquility Trinity stamps to create the patterned strips.

This week's Papertrey Princess challenge is from Leah, who issued the challenge to create a card or other project that you will actually give to someone within the next week.

I love this challenge, because while I love making cards, I often forget to hand them out.

So I made this card for my friend, Joy and will give it to her in church tomorrow, to let her know how much I value our friendship. I also made this card for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Dry Brushing.